Richard Hays: Change at Any Age
Everything Happens with Kate Bowler
Everything Happens Studios
4.8 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2024
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Is it possible for anyone to change—change their mind, change their theology, change their priorities? What does it mean to hope when we live in such uncertainty?
Richard B. Hays is a world-renowned scholar of the New Testament. He is also a dear friend and colleague of Kate Bowler. Richard and Kate were both unexpectedly diagnosed with cancer at the same time, which meant they spent many hours discussing the heart of what it means to hope. Their hard won wisdom adds such depth and heart to today’s episode.
In this conversation, Richard and Kate discuss:
- What it means to be hopeful
- A rich theological perspective of suffering in light of the resurrection
- How to pray when you are living in uncertainty
- Why it's never too late to change your mind as you grow older
This is a soulful conversation that embodies the humility it takes to change anything. Your mind. How your time is spent. Your certainties. We can’t wait to hear what you think.
If you liked this episode, you might also love:
- Will Willimon on vocation (especially as we age)
- Tom Long on learning to number our days
- Stanley Hauerwas on needing fewer explanations
- Jeff Chu on discovering grace for people who think unlike you
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| 0:54.7 | Do you think it's possible for anyone to really change, like to change their mind to change their beliefs, change their priorities. |
| 1:07.8 | The self-help and wellness industry would love to tell you, yes, change is possible, and with this six-step process or magical |
| 1:16.8 | elixir, you too can have the life you always wanted. You can become a new person |
| 1:21.8 | tomorrow. |
| 1:23.0 | Just get more sleep, it's easy. |
| 1:25.0 | No problem. |
| 1:27.0 | Or maybe you should pick that fight with your friend again |
| 1:30.0 | about that thing you still disagree on. |
| 1:32.0 | I'm sure it'll work this time. Just try it. |
| 1:36.1 | Change is harder than we think. We get stuck. We get stuck in our certainties and our habits in our world views in our bad |
| 1:45.7 | attitudes. I think that's why maybe we should give ourselves and other people a |
| 1:52.4 | tiny bit more grace to celebrate when we |
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